Consumer Driven Health Care

Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188

Employers and providers are exploring a new path: putting
consumers, not insurers, in charge of how their health care dollars
are spent, a change that promises upheaval to the health
care system according to Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson
Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business
School, in Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for
Providers, Payers, and Policymakers.

Our current health care sector has virtually no competition -
consumers are typically limited to only one health insurance plan
and providers are restricted to the prices that insurers set for
them. Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health
care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers,
providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With
additional contributions by health care's leading strategists,
innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health
Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system
built to satisfy the people it serves.

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